Why it works: Potato and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 6,458 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓
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Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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The flavor team
The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.
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Potato + olivetop 7% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together6,458 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
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Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together27,232 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
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Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together8,305 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
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Bread + olivetop 9% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together1,091 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
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Pepper + olivetop 11% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together30,263 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Flavor stand-ins for the potato
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, pepper, bread, olive):
- Tomatobetter flavor fit
- Capsicumbetter flavor fit
- Potatothe original
- Spinachabout as good a flavor fit
Fit is the average pairing score against butter, pepper, bread, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).
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